If you're tired of digital vs. film comparisons, or don't care about the revolution that's currently going on, then please do not feel obliged to read this article. But, if like me you're excited about the dramatic changes that are taking place in photography right now and want to know what's happening at the bleeding edge, then you will likely find this of interest.

In late 2000 I bought my first digital SLR, theCanon EOS D30, a 3 Megapixel camera. I was very impressed with the image quality and began to use it for some of my wildlife work. I still primarily used medium format for all my landscape work.

Then in mid-2002 I upgraded to theCanon EOS D60. This cameras clearly surpassed 35mm film quality in every respect and so I retired my film-basedCanon EOS 1V. But I still continued to do my landscape work with medium format and film.

In September 2002 I started working with a pre-production version of theCanon EOS 1Ds, an 11 Megapixel full-frame digital SLR. I found image qu...